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CITY. 



..IK- is nl>. 



tire width, suj al in-din. 



seals of the province ami York 



. e tin- si'. 



i ranees, and in .n i> the seal uf the 



1 tlu 

 f the rivet inn -f tit ilfl be- 



:.of till' III 



Al. On one of tho granite posts separ 



.',,-. . ' . _ i - i- . ar\i 'I : 



Milies. 



. IXM." <MI the other is a wreath of laun-1 



and n |uilm. 



r n soldiers 1 ami sail-'!-' monument 

 <TS ap- 



l-.intcd for that i>urp<*e. This design, which 

 waa sculptured iy l-n--i.-n<-k Biacmonniaa, calls for 



bj a railing, en:- 



- by stops. The pedestal is surmounted 

 by a circular column alnmt 125 feet hiirh. tl, 



u-h is a In : i -on three 



rides of the base of tin- column an- statues. t\v.. 

 having a mounted soldier and the third >ideagroup 

 of sn for tho monument 



chosen, although it i thai it will be 



ed somewhere on Riverside Drive. 



immemorating the p 

 f llnnrich Heine, arrived ii 

 The site of its probable ran described in 



the* 4 Annual Cyclopaedia" for : 



iic.il inn of t, rant's Tomb. This event t..k 

 place mi April 27. the seventy-fifth anniversary of 

 the liirth <>f (ien. < .rant, which date was bract of the 

 Legislature made a public holiday. The arrange- 

 for the ceremony began wnfa the ap: 

 of a committee of 20: citi/.ens by \> 

 Strong on Feb. ll. The Mayor was chosen chair- 

 man of the committee, and the Board <>f Kstimate 



priated $50,000 for the expenses of th. 

 oration, loiter, numerous subcommittees w. : 

 pointed, and of the Committee of Military Affairs 

 rilk M. iNxlgewas named as chairman, 

 becoming also grand marshal of the parade. Tlie 

 land parade was organized into three grand divi- 

 . us follow : Fir-t. the military, under (Jen. 

 'rntt, including the \\Yst Pbinl Cadets, Tniied 

 States troops numbering nearly Ji.OOO (forming the 

 largest mobilization of tlie regular army in New 

 the civil wan. ami the" National 

 York and other States. Second, the 

 .nder (Jen. olj\,-r n. ]{ -ward, including 



ami Army of the Republic* Sons oi 

 and similar organizations from vari- 

 Third, civic organizations, under Charles F. Homer, 

 including letter carriers, fire associations, public- 

 school students, and other societies, and uniformed 

 ;i U.dies. The naval parade, under the com- 

 mand of Admiral Fninci- M. Munco. included 

 sels f r . .rth Atlantic M.-et. revenue marine, 



i'-rs, and foreign men-of-war. The 

 line of march of the land parade was fmn. 

 Street up Madison Av,.,, M e to .V,th Street, ii 

 west to Fifth Avenue, to . to the H,,ule- 



vartl, al..ne the east roadway t- 



..lid lip the 



: aroun.l the Claremont and back to 

 119th Street, t! : ,i jK.intbe- 



an-1. on April 1* the body of 

 Gen. Grant had lcen removed from the temp 



and placed in the great sarcophagus. The 



cession wa- lined with stands, many 



of which 1 aboratelir decorated with bant- 



ie lirilliant "iors of wliieh were spoiled by a 



the nisi.- jflth. The only 



decoration on the tomb was double victory palms 



bound with purple silk on each of the columns. 



on the morning of the parade the weal he? 



ng north wind that 



. . 



was overcast. The exercises al the tomb i 

 with the arrival of President McKinley. On the 



\ ing member of the 

 UOenl Cle\cland. meml- 

 the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps, and many in- 



nal reputation. When i 



dent McKinley armed a < horn.-, under the di- 



.nk Damr- .i." in 



which the th.. '.xent joined. Then fol- 



..-hop John P. New man. 

 a hymn of t ha: 



McKinley. who spoke bridly. beginnim.- 

 the \v I great life, dedicated to the \\ . 



of the nation, here finds its earthly coronation.* 1 



rig of "Th oner" f"li 



after \\hich (Jen. II fter, Pn-ident of the 



Monument Associat ini. delivered the oration of the 

 day. and transmitted the tomb to the custody of 

 the city. Mayor Strong, in behalf of the munici- 

 pality. 'accepted the tni-t.aild 1 he exercises, 

 with* the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's 



-iah " and the , 



I under the direction '..f l-Yank D'ami 

 The land parade had set out mi il> march and 

 reached the west side of the Claremont at one 

 o'clock. The marine parade arrived simultane- 

 ously, and at the hour just named t he signal from 



the Claremont conveyed tin- message, "The i 

 dent is h. i'ite of -Jl guns ackno\\], 



the fact, and President McKinley passed t 



.d again, ami the parade of nearly 



60,000 pci-soi i- pas-ed before him. Late in the aft d - 



ntial party wit hdn-w. and. taking t he 



- Dolphin " at the fiM.t 'of i:: 



dent reviewed the fleet of vessels by passing dow n 



the line 1 berC he deliarkdl a 



turned to the Windsor Hotel. In th. 



brilliant reception was held at the I'nion League 



Club, for which more than l.ooo invitations were 



issued, and at which Channccy M. I > ntcd 



the members and guests to "President McKinley. 



The final event was a ball and reception giV 



the city of New York on the evening of April 28 at 



the Waldorf, 



The Ne\\ \oi-k and ISrnnkhn Hridge. The 

 charge i,f this bridge since its completion has been 

 under the care of a board of -even trustees, whose 



nee clii-i-d with the end of the 

 Their final ref)ort shows that in 1897 the receipt! 

 from tolls were $1,240,80" 1.'..' I. divided as follow: 

 <! >.7'.i7. I''-: railroad, $1,150,064.08. 

 In the yea- -engers were carried upon 



the railroad. The receipts from all sources, includ- 

 ing rents, interest, etc.. amounted to$l.. 



xpenditures amounted to *!.. leav- 



ing a balance of $20 ; period of 



the bridge railway's exMeiic. 186 passen- 



gers have been carried. At the close of th' 



payment of all debt-, then- was a surplus 

 sufficient 1 New York $48,000 and to Brook- 



lyn $86.000, this being in the proportion of their 

 ownership. 



0,, Dec, ::i.at ll.::o P.M.. the first trolley car 

 crossed the bridge. As it was necessary, on ac- 

 count of an injunction, that the track should be 

 completed before midnight, work had been 

 tinned all the evenn 

 I \.-lia nire. Din- 

 change, there were bought and sold -toek.-. 7; 

 447 shares; State and railroad bonds (par value), 

 .<*); Government bonds (par value), $10.- 

 \t the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum 

 ange the transactions were : Kailrnad -lock-. 

 66,462,560 shares ; mining stocks, 997,080 shares ; 



